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The Oscar Documentary Feature Submissions of Film Year 2020 I've Seen, Ranked [Shortlist Completed]

An amazing record of 238 feature-length documentaries made it to the 2020 Oscar long-list. [See here: bit.ly/3atLXNx.]

This is my ongoing personal record, and ranking, of those I've seen.

As of the last update, I have seen all fifteen shortlisted titles.

My Other Documentary Features Lists: [ 2024 ] [ 2023 ] [ 2022 ] [ 2021 ] [ 2020 ]

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  • Songs of Repression

    222

  • What's Eating Ralphie May?

    230

  • Who Is Gatsby Randolph

    231

  • American Selfie: One Nation Shoots Itself

    68

  • For They Know Not What They Do

    76

  • Aggie

    152

  • Colombia in My Arms

    160

  • Nasrin

    204

  • Circus of Books

    124

  • (In)Visible Portraits

    125

  • My People: The Jews of Greece

    201

  • Softie

    221

  • Gunda

    2

  • 76 Days

    13

  • Beyond The Visible - Hilma af Klint

    15

  • Landfall

    36

  • Fandango at the Wall

    70

  • The Ghost of Peter Sellers

    83

  • The Pollinators

    99

  • Ringside

    107

  • Harry Chapin: When in Doubt, Do Something

    128

  • Born to Be

    156

  • Lift Like a Girl

    193

  • Bully. Coward. Victim. The Story of Roy Cohn

    40

  • Feels Good Man

    42

  • White Noise

    67

  • The Donut King

    117

  • The Social Dilemma

    123

  • Searching for Mr. Rugoff

    218

  • System K

    223

  • My Rembrandt

    25

  • House of Cardin

    43

  • Black Boys

    66

  • On the Record

    77

  • A Most Beautiful Thing

    130

  • The Infiltrators

    145

  • River City Drumbeat

    215

  • We Are the Radical Monarchs

    229

  • Jimmy Carter: Rock & Roll President

    41

  • Transhood

    54

  • Once Upon a Time in Venezuela

    87

  • Billie

    100

  • Mucho Mucho Amor: The Legend of Walter Mercado

    118

  • Lennox Lewis: The Untold Story

    135

  • Public Trust

    211

  • Stars and Strife

    12

  • I Am Greta

    45

  • Flannery

    79

  • The Fight

    88

  • The Go-Go's

    106

  • Finding Yingying

    137

  • Trust Me

    227

  • Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets

    16

  • Fireball: Visitors from Darker Worlds

    84

  • John Lewis: Good Trouble

    85

  • 17 Blocks

    126

  • Kingdom of Silence

    142

  • Us Kids

    228

  • The Booksellers

    9

  • A Thousand Cuts

    20

  • iHuman

    59

  • Mighty Ira

    61

  • Father Soldier Son

    103

  • Yusuf Hawkins: Storm Over Brooklyn

    113

  • Once Were Brothers: Robbie Robertson and The Band

    78

  • Notturno

    81

  • The Phenomenon

    110

  • Planet of the Humans

    114

  • All I Can Say

    153

  • Mother to Earth

    199

  • Wild Daze

    232

  • Slay the Dragon

    3

  • Olympia

    24

  • The Dog Doc

    105

  • First We Eat

    175

  • All In: The Fight for Democracy

    4

  • The State of Texas vs. Melissa

    62

  • The Way I See It

    86

  • The Antidote

    136

  • The Painter and the Thief

    146

  • City Dream

    159

  • Capital in the Twenty-First Century

    7

  • Chuck Berry: The Original King of Rock 'n' Roll

    73

  • MLK/FBI

    55

  • Apocalypse '45

    60

  • Assassins

    94

  • Be Water

    92

  • Athlete A

    119

  • This Is Paris

    122

  • Chicago: America's Hidden War

    158

  • The New Corporation: The Unfortunately Necessary Sequel

    30

  • Rising Phoenix

    37

  • Uncle Tom

    148

  • Crip Camp: A Disability Revolution

    19

  • Welcome to Chechnya

    21

  • Disclosure

    91

  • Desert One

    97

  • Human Nature

    116

  • My Psychedelic Love Story

    131

  • The Human Factor

    22